How many points in Scrabble is yikes worth? yikes how many points in Words With Friends? What does yikes mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is yikes a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word yikes is a Scrabble US word. The word yikes is worth 12 points in Scrabble:
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Is yikes a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word yikes is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:
Y4I1K5E1S1
Is yikes a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word yikes is a Words With Friends word. The word yikes is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
Y3I1K5E1S1
You can make 30 words from yikes according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word yikes. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in yikes.
Attested from mid-20th century, perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hounds after a fox, which is attested from 1765–1775, that also is sometimes used as an exclamation of excitement or triumph. Yoicks is perhaps related to the earlier hoicks. Hoicks (alternatively hoick, hoic or hoik) is a variant of hyke, which was used as an exclamation of encouragement to hounds hunting deer. Further etymology unknown.
Alternatively, it may be derived from yipes, which is an earlier exclamation of similar usage as yikes (and is often considered to be an alternative form of yikes). Yipes may be derived from yipe, which itself may be derived from the yie sound often used to express pain or dismay, with the -p adding onto it in the same way as yep and nope. Or, yipes may be derived from the yipping sound that dogs make.
Or, possibly a conflation of both of the previous.
yikes (informal, often humorous)